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The Register, 2009-04-01

The Register, 2009-04-01

campus notebook campus news obama leaves house for europe national harris dies of crash injuries philip elliott associated press stage bailey staff writer dexter mullins online editor photo by kenneth hawkins â€¢ register kay m harris assistant di rector of counseling services passed away at moses cone hospital on sunday march 22 following a car accident that students protest on the allegations made against jasmin's campaign deniseiverson-payne was instrumental in making the final decision for a re-election photo by kenneth hawkins â€¢ register elections protest aggies proteststudents flooded the office of student development on monday to demand a re-election be held for sga president obama obama's eight-day five country trip begins early tues day sending him to meet with european leaders who split with the united states over the war in iraq and the treatment of sus pected terrorists at guantanamo bay under president george w bush powers and a nato summit marking the 60 years since the alliance was founded to blunt so viet aggression in europe jor economic obama's focus a g-20 meeting of the world's ma washington â€” president barack obama left for europe tuesday packing a weighty agenda as he heads for critical economic and political talks in his first journey across the at lantic since taking office two months ago the president and america are going to listen in london as well as to lead white house spokesman robert gibbs said the main event in london is thursday's summit on the global financial crisis among the group of 20 wealthy and developing nations together they represent 85 percent of the world's economy obama's administration first up a summit of the world's economic powers in london to address the global financial meltdown that has defined the first two months of obama planned to meet with leaders of britain russia and china â€” major players in the u.s financial system he also scheduled meetings with lead ers of india and south korea while in london but money isn't the sole agenda item obama plans to attend international summits on urgent topics including the downward-spiraling fight against terrorists in afghanistan and pakistan he also will make his first stop in a muslim nation turkey wildly popular around the globe but relatively inexperi enced in foreign affairs obama and his wife michelle also will squeeze in a buckingham pal as of march 26 2009 the decision of the elections com mittee was to disqualify syene jasmin from the 2009 elections process due to an appeal that was submitted alleging cam paign violations by his opponent julian love moreover the violation may have provided mr jasmin an unfair advantage over his opponent after review the elections committee has decided to retract this decision and allow the candidates to be put back on the ballot for a re-election " jasmin filed to contest the reported violations in the appeal jasmin pointed out as per the rules of the elections committee the reported violation should not have been valid as it was reported after the close of the polls according elections committee candidate campaign guide article v alleged violations pertaining to the gen eral election or the run-off election must be submitted before the close of the designated poll site however according to the post elections guide lines anyone who discovers a violation of protocol is given the reported violation was explained in an email that was sent out to the student body at approximately 3:30 p.m tuesday from maurice scott the chairman of the elec tions committee however the victory for jasmin was very shortly lived just a few hours after jasmin was announced president on thursday he was disqualified by the elections committee for a reported campaign violation after what could possibly be the most debated election in north carolina a&t history a special election will take place on tomorrow april 2 for the position of sga president in stallings ballroom from 9 a.m to 6 p.m following last week's election on march 25 there has been confusion as to who was elected president of the student body on march 26 the elections committee pro claimed syene jasmin as the offical winner this occurred around 3:20 p.m jasmin captured 1123 votes or 62.11 of the vote love captured 685 votes which was 37.88 percent university guidance counsel or chandra caple worked with harris for 12 years the longest of those working with her in counseling service said that she would always remember her kindness and giving nature she recalled how mrs harris would we did opr jobs but we had fun talking about various things barnette said wheth er we agreed on it or not it was just being able to work together and the work always came out top notch her kindness extended not only to students but those who worked with her such as licensed psychologist and di rector of counseling services vivian barnette barnette who had been working with harris for two years cited her old fashioned and sufficient way of doing things a pleasure and ben efit to students as well as those in the office kay harris had just retired from her position as the assis tant director of counseling ser vices in january after working within the division of student affairs for 30 years she was an a&t graduate and had a deep love for the university her character has been described as motherly very giving and kind during survival week when exams came around counsel ing services always provides for food and a survival kit filled with snacks and motivation to get students through their tests harris always made the red punch served in the office during those times and will be remembered for always mak ing sure students had what they needed occurred saturday evening ac cording to police a jeep grand cherokee driven by dwight thompson hit harris car while trying to make a left turn onto east bragg street she was trav eling with passenger 24-year old arnitra renee harris who was treated at moses cone hos pital and released both harris and thompson died from inju ries â–º see sga on page 2 the margin of victory was so large that it could not be dis puted on monday students took their protest to the office of student development to deliver the petition students have a right to question dr judy rashid dean of students said if there is a need to revisit the rules up to 96 hours to report a violation to the elections commit tee although love's report came after the close of the polls he was still legitimately allowed to report it petitions began circulating on friday across the internet on social networking sites like facebook the purpose of the petition was to call for a re-election because many of the student body felt the results of the initial election were conclusive â–º see accident on page 2 â–º see obama on page 2 weather ncatregister.com sga elections protest pics theyard teachers give paper cuts theword we need to see more arts thescore blue and gold football game thescene battle of the iron mic thursday sunny | high 68 wednesday high 60 low 47 online keep up with breaking news on our web site slideshows videos and more are available a&t has a lot to offer in creative arts and the only students that seems to express are the oned involved in theater in some school classrooms the us age of paper is becoming more of a relic'than an educational staple the student union advisory board suab and ny/nj con nection held their first battle of the iron mic page 7 a&t's football team hosted their annual spring football game showcasing their new look for the upcoming season in the fall page 6 www.ncatregister.com page 8 friday mostly cloudy | high 67 page fires back page 8 hate hazing free 0 f ; r 8 "* 111 next week the plan behind campus construction progress price of register the a&t <: o ncatregister.com the student new wednesday paper of north carolina a&t serving the aggie community for over 80 years

campus notebook campus news obama leaves house for europe national harris dies of crash injuries philip elliott associated press stage bailey staff writer dexter mullins online editor photo by kenneth hawkins â€¢ register kay m harris assistant di rector of counseling services passed away at moses cone hospital on sunday march 22 following a car accident that students protest on the allegations made against jasmin's campaign deniseiverson-payne was instrumental in making the final decision for a re-election photo by kenneth hawkins â€¢ register elections protest aggies proteststudents flooded the office of student development on monday to demand a re-election be held for sga president obama obama's eight-day five country trip begins early tues day sending him to meet with european leaders who split with the united states over the war in iraq and the treatment of sus pected terrorists at guantanamo bay under president george w bush powers and a nato summit marking the 60 years since the alliance was founded to blunt so viet aggression in europe jor economic obama's focus a g-20 meeting of the world's ma washington â€” president barack obama left for europe tuesday packing a weighty agenda as he heads for critical economic and political talks in his first journey across the at lantic since taking office two months ago the president and america are going to listen in london as well as to lead white house spokesman robert gibbs said the main event in london is thursday's summit on the global financial crisis among the group of 20 wealthy and developing nations together they represent 85 percent of the world's economy obama's administration first up a summit of the world's economic powers in london to address the global financial meltdown that has defined the first two months of obama planned to meet with leaders of britain russia and china â€” major players in the u.s financial system he also scheduled meetings with lead ers of india and south korea while in london but money isn't the sole agenda item obama plans to attend international summits on urgent topics including the downward-spiraling fight against terrorists in afghanistan and pakistan he also will make his first stop in a muslim nation turkey wildly popular around the globe but relatively inexperi enced in foreign affairs obama and his wife michelle also will squeeze in a buckingham pal as of march 26 2009 the decision of the elections com mittee was to disqualify syene jasmin from the 2009 elections process due to an appeal that was submitted alleging cam paign violations by his opponent julian love moreover the violation may have provided mr jasmin an unfair advantage over his opponent after review the elections committee has decided to retract this decision and allow the candidates to be put back on the ballot for a re-election " jasmin filed to contest the reported violations in the appeal jasmin pointed out as per the rules of the elections committee the reported violation should not have been valid as it was reported after the close of the polls according elections committee candidate campaign guide article v alleged violations pertaining to the gen eral election or the run-off election must be submitted before the close of the designated poll site however according to the post elections guide lines anyone who discovers a violation of protocol is given the reported violation was explained in an email that was sent out to the student body at approximately 3:30 p.m tuesday from maurice scott the chairman of the elec tions committee however the victory for jasmin was very shortly lived just a few hours after jasmin was announced president on thursday he was disqualified by the elections committee for a reported campaign violation after what could possibly be the most debated election in north carolina a&t history a special election will take place on tomorrow april 2 for the position of sga president in stallings ballroom from 9 a.m to 6 p.m following last week's election on march 25 there has been confusion as to who was elected president of the student body on march 26 the elections committee pro claimed syene jasmin as the offical winner this occurred around 3:20 p.m jasmin captured 1123 votes or 62.11 of the vote love captured 685 votes which was 37.88 percent university guidance counsel or chandra caple worked with harris for 12 years the longest of those working with her in counseling service said that she would always remember her kindness and giving nature she recalled how mrs harris would we did opr jobs but we had fun talking about various things barnette said wheth er we agreed on it or not it was just being able to work together and the work always came out top notch her kindness extended not only to students but those who worked with her such as licensed psychologist and di rector of counseling services vivian barnette barnette who had been working with harris for two years cited her old fashioned and sufficient way of doing things a pleasure and ben efit to students as well as those in the office kay harris had just retired from her position as the assis tant director of counseling ser vices in january after working within the division of student affairs for 30 years she was an a&t graduate and had a deep love for the university her character has been described as motherly very giving and kind during survival week when exams came around counsel ing services always provides for food and a survival kit filled with snacks and motivation to get students through their tests harris always made the red punch served in the office during those times and will be remembered for always mak ing sure students had what they needed occurred saturday evening ac cording to police a jeep grand cherokee driven by dwight thompson hit harris car while trying to make a left turn onto east bragg street she was trav eling with passenger 24-year old arnitra renee harris who was treated at moses cone hos pital and released both harris and thompson died from inju ries â–º see sga on page 2 the margin of victory was so large that it could not be dis puted on monday students took their protest to the office of student development to deliver the petition students have a right to question dr judy rashid dean of students said if there is a need to revisit the rules up to 96 hours to report a violation to the elections commit tee although love's report came after the close of the polls he was still legitimately allowed to report it petitions began circulating on friday across the internet on social networking sites like facebook the purpose of the petition was to call for a re-election because many of the student body felt the results of the initial election were conclusive â–º see accident on page 2 â–º see obama on page 2 weather ncatregister.com sga elections protest pics theyard teachers give paper cuts theword we need to see more arts thescore blue and gold football game thescene battle of the iron mic thursday sunny | high 68 wednesday high 60 low 47 online keep up with breaking news on our web site slideshows videos and more are available a&t has a lot to offer in creative arts and the only students that seems to express are the oned involved in theater in some school classrooms the us age of paper is becoming more of a relic'than an educational staple the student union advisory board suab and ny/nj con nection held their first battle of the iron mic page 7 a&t's football team hosted their annual spring football game showcasing their new look for the upcoming season in the fall page 6 www.ncatregister.com page 8 friday mostly cloudy | high 67 page fires back page 8 hate hazing free 0 f ; r 8 "* 111 next week the plan behind campus construction progress price of register the a&t